Image pickup apparatus with a flexible printed circuit board with a bent portion

Abstract

An image pickup apparatus includes a sensor unit that includes a shake detecting sensor configured to detect an applied shake, a flexible printed circuit board having a sensor mounting part, and a holding member having a first surface configured to hold the sensor mounting part. The sensor unit is disposed in a first direction parallel to a shutter blade moving direction. The first surface and a second surface separated from the first surface in the first direction are provided so as to be orthogonal to the first direction. The flexible printed circuit board has an extending portion extending from the sensor mounting part. The extending portion has a bent portion that is bent in the first direction between the first surface and the second surface so that an extending direction is reversed in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
 a shutter; 
 an electric circuit board; and 
 a sensor unit that includes:
 a shake detecting sensor configured to detect a shake applied to the image pickup apparatus; 
 a flexible printed circuit board having a sensor mounting part on which the shake detecting sensor is mounted; and 
 a holding member having a first surface configured to hold the sensor mounting part, the holding member being fixed into the image pickup apparatus, 
 
 wherein the sensor unit is disposed in a first direction parallel to a direction in which shutter blades of the shutter move relative to the shutter, 
 wherein in the sensor unit, the first surface and a second surface separated from the first surface in the first direction are provided so as to be orthogonal to the first direction, 
 wherein the flexible printed circuit board has an extending portion extending from the sensor mounting part and connected to the electric circuit board, and 
 wherein the extending portion has a bent portion that is bent in the first direction between the first surface and the second surface so that an extending direction is reversed in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. 
 
     
     
       2. The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a buffer member made of an elastic material is disposed between the first surface and the second surface. 
     
     
       3. The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the buffer member forms a space configured to house part of the bent portion. 
     
     
       4. The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the sensor unit includes a fixed member that holds the holding member and is fixed in the image pickup apparatus, and
 wherein the fixed member has the second surface. 
 
     
     
       5. The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein the fixed member forms a space configured to house part of the bent portion. 
     
     
       6. The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the sensor unit has another shake detecting sensor configured to detect a shake in a different direction from that of the shake detecting sensor,
 wherein the holding member has a third surface parallel to the first direction and configured to hold the other shake detecting sensor, and 
 wherein the bent portion is disposed in an area where the third surface is projected in a direction orthogonal to the third surface. 
 
     
     
       7. The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a driver configured to shift, relative to the optical axis, an image pickup element configured to image an object image or a lens configured to form the object image on the image pickup element using an output from the shake detecting sensor. 
     
     
       8. The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising an image processor configured to shift a cutout area of image data generated by an output from an image pickup element configured to image an object image, using an output from the shake detecting sensor.